HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality

General System Administration
HP-UX Kernel Configuration
Chapter 5
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• tuning the kernel tunables
• loading and unloading kernel modules
•configuring alarms
• viewing change logs
The HP-UX kernel configuration tool (kcweb) can be launched from SAM or from the HP
System Management Homepage.
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Summary of Change
• In this release, the HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool is a plug-in for the HP System
Management Homepage. On launching the Web-based kernel configuration tool from
SAM, the HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool with new look and feel is displayed from
the HP System Management Homepage on the Web browser.
• The terminal user interface (TUI) of the kernel configuration functional area has
been changed from the earlier version of ObAM-based TUI.
Impact
You will be able to configure the kernel from SAM with a new look-and-feel GUI and
TUI. This TUI is different from the earlier version of ObAM- based TUI.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
Information is available in the white paper called “Managing Kernel Configurations in
HP-UX 11i version 2,” available at http://docs.hp.com.
Information is also available in the Managing Systems and Workgroups manual for this
release, also available at http://www.docs.hp.com.
Information is available in the following online manpages:
• kcalarm (1M)
• kcmond (1M)
• kconfig (5)
• kconfig (1M)
• kcmodule (1M)
• kctune (1M)
• kclog (1M)
• kcpath (1M)
• kcusage (1M)
1. See “HP System Management Homepage” on page 117.